I mean or you do like with Vasa skeppet, Gustav Vasas, (greatest swedish King) priced ship. It wasent finished during his lifetime but still sunk on its maiden sailing, but it was all built by hand.
@@eshkhasderon7769 That was actually the Hood, the PoW [Prince of Wales] survived the battle and sank due to air strikes by Japanese planes (I think) alongside the HMS Repulse a couple of years later
Whatever the future holds for Prince of W. & QE these ships are amazing achievements & are fitting tributes to the British men and women who helped to build them. The armchair experts, mostly foreign I gather, will always point out the shortcomings of design and intended purpose. These carriers have largely been built according to British designs, using a range of skills & technologies, both foreign & domestic. Oh yes, not forgetting using Chinese built cranes. (Before some of our foreign friends get their knickers knotted. Just saying 😉👍)
@@somebodyelse5820 it is catapult compatible we are not cavemen and it is a conscious decision to make it a ramp Same with the diesel Just pull your finger out your arse and think for a minute And then piss off and stop complaining about a country the size of a single state having a worse navy than the USA
@@Joopyter724 To be honest I agree, and when they're taking the piss out of us trying to build a new aircraft carrier I say that building two at one time is pretty good especially for an island nation that is the size of a single US state.
We never stopped. Granted we use soft power these days but we've never not been influential. Even with the god awful politicians we've had the last few decades.
A glimpse recommendation from korea Firstly, I admire your NHS. Your country spends 6% of your whole GNP on NHS, thus providing free healthcare to all citizens. South Korea has a very efficient(but not as good as yours) health care system. If GB manages to make the NHS a bit more efficient, your government can easily fund your carriers
@@minjaejun2829 the nhs is fucking shit now. waiting times are forever.. my friend sat in the waiting room for 7 hours with a broken arm. no painkillers at all aswell.
ARandomRU-vidr yeah the nhs needs more investment by the government but if boris keeps paying millions for his Tory cronies they’ll never see that much needed capital.
@@harryfisher9922 I dont see why you are blaming this on Boris. Just because you dont like him doesnt mean he is the cause of all problems. the NHS waiting times and crap has been a big problem for a very long time
As an American, it is very cool to see y’all get your SECOND! I’m not here to bash. Only here to say thank you for building this ship. The U.S. and it’s allies need to remain strong and loyal to each other. The HMS Prince of Wells does just that. Bravo!
Britain: and after we have built these 2 carriers which are nothing compared to carriers built by the likes of china and the US, we ran out of money so we can't build enough ships/equipment to create a proper carrier strike force :D rest of the world: laughs
@@alexalbrecht5768 mate our British carriers are apparently using F35B's that we could buy a entire Normandy Invasion force for a carrier full of them.
Say what you want about the Royal Navy and even the capability of these carriers, but this is an engineering triumph - something we should be proud Britain can still accomplish!
@Benito Mussolini I'd love the battleship prince of wales. Cover her in missile systems like Reagan did with the iowa battleships in the 80s and she's the ultimate escort. Then when you want entertainment you fire the big guns for guys like me. :)
Roman true. They should of at least kept HMS vanguard for tourist which can gain money for the economy instead of scrapping it which just leads to losses economic wise.
do what? actually take off? last time there were two aircraft carriers in the area they didnt do anything to them and these will be more powerful. with stealth jets not harriers and type 45 destroyers, Argentinas poxy underfunded air force that has hardy changed since that humiliating surrender to a smaller force, wouldnt get near them, another quick and easy victory, not that you could take the islands anyway, they are actually defended now, those 4 typhoons could decimate argentinas entire air force and the there are 1000s of troops stationed there not 60.
The Argentine Airforce is in pretty poor condition. They’ve only got 36 converted A-4ARs as fighters and 27 IA-63 ground attack jet aircraft in inventory. Their readiness rates are pretty bad since Argentina’s military budget is about on par per capita in comparison to other Latin American nations, but their personnel pay is much higher.
Kuro Usagi they got more than that like you know SEM the same plane upgraded (and not coverted) think what they can do only think if the old version of the plane the SUE hit the invencible, imagine what the SEM s can do
@@silvergemteam They didn`t sink HMS Invincible though did they, failed attacks against an old aircraft carrier nearly 40 years ago is no basis for confidence in success now, with an updated version of a 70s aircraft, and that is your reason for saying "Think what they can do, only think" like its so much that we cant even imagine the power of these updated 70s jets and should be in awe. The Type 45 destroyer can track 100s of tennis ball sized objects simultaneously, and the Jets on these carriers are completely new and radical, they are stealth jets with BVR capability, that can pass their fired rockets to another jet to control and another, the Falklands is manned with 1000s of troops and Radar systems, with a full islands comms network and nearly all the local men are now trained reserves of the Falkland Island Defense Force, there are 4 Typhoon/Eurofighters on the Island which can be boosted by many many more(even if the carriers just transport them down and off load them), Submarines and warships permanently on enrollment in the region and prior warning is a certainty as is the political will to defend, all these things were not there before, and you still couldn`t hold the islands when you had a military junta with the military controlling budgets. This time you couldn`t take them never mind hold them. You live in cloud cuckoo land if you think those old junkers could get near one of these, why would anyone even have a carrier if such old aircraft can destroy them with such ease that you profess?
The name Hood was been struck due to the fate of the battlecruiser hood. No new ship can be called hood as a sign of respect to the crew that where lost and the ship.
Uk: we have the third best carriers in the world, our mighty navy is back Us: I have 11 of the 1st and second best Uk: then are you winning son? Us: yes dad I’m winning
@mohamad ikram it's not to do with royalty, it's going by the fact that most Americans are descended from European emigrants, of that a large share British. Also with the fact that Britain ruled the colonies before the war of independence and America speaks English. although a lot has changed Britain is America's closest cultural ancestor
@ Johnny Sandtrap You do realize that the colonial era predates US independence and that they were _your_ colonies. Admiralty Law doesn’t govern anything regarding what pronoun ships are referred to by.
I have a question. At 1:12 it shows a tugboat pulling the stern section into the drydock. My question is, how did the tug then get back out of the drydock? 🤔
@@someguynamedav7947 warspite was in such a bad state that saving her wouldve been 10x harder then actually scrapping her, yes it is a shame that she was scrapped but preserving such a large vessel is very expensive and we should be thankful that even a light cruiser survived (belfast)
Amazing how something so big can be constructed in sections and then the pieces fit exactly together. Wonder what would happen if there was a discrepancy of say 1-2 in deck or hull plating between sections?
GamingVlogs I don’t think strategically you would want to have two of your big naval assets in one place at the same time, they would be like sitting ducks.
@@ssamm1608 Prine of Wales didn't sink. It accompanied the HMS Hood which got struck by a magazine detonation through Bismarck. The HMS Prince of Wales got away.
The irony of an aircraft carrier being given the same name is that the WWII battleship HMS Prince Of Wales was sunk by Japanese air attack in the South China Sea just after Pearl Harbour 😔.
It amazes me what people can do when they work together. Imagine where humans couldve been if heads of our nations worked together instead fighting each other of cuz ego.
OK! But then again. The crew of the Eugen didn’t get killed. The Americans captured the Eugen and used it for atomic nuke testing at the Pacific Ocean. + U can even see the Eugens wreck on google maps. It’s right at the beach of Enubij island (Marshall islands)
@@bulletproofguy5112 the Yanks think they are the Gods of carrier technology but when they discover that they only copied the UK and made the vessel larger and then but stupid nuclear reactors onboard they get upset. But the UK invented the steam catapult, angled deck , Optical Landing System , armoured deck, first welded carrier, STOVL , Radar & started the electric launch system called EMKITS/EMCAT
Hood as a name has be struck due to the fate of the battlecruiser hood. No new ship can bestow the name Hood as a sign of respect to the lost crew and the ahip
@@mrridley8967 I give Brits few hundred to a thousand years, and they will name new ship "Hood". In name of the ship that went down in WW2 of course. It's simply a matter of perspective.
I confused this with the Battleship HMS Prince of wales from the title but i was confused at first because it looks so modern and then i realized that they meant the Aircraft Carrier
HMS prince of Wales: nice to see you again Bismarck. KMS Bismarck: wait who are you? HMS prince of wales: im prince of Wales and im reborn KMS bismarck: wtf how you change yourself to a carrier? HMS prince of Wales: well i got retrofit from my shikikan sama :) KMS bismarck: oh wow nice to meet you again :) (Azur lane)
It's because you lot keep trying things. That's exactly why Germany and Japan are restricted of what they can and can't have, start building something you are not allowed and it'll be over before the first weld is finished lol
It helps with airflow and several other things, like a spare command post in case one is knocked out. The forward Island focuses on sailing the ship and commanding the battlegroup, the rear island controls all flight operations.
You'd think that even modern military ships would get a little more armor than those 1 inch thick steel plates they make civilian ships out of. I thought they would at least put some torpedo protection bulks over the regular hull, or something. This is basically just a regular container ship with an aircraft hangar on top. Can't even compare it to a modern oil tanker, because those have double-hulls and thus probably a better chance to survive a torpedo hit or even just a collision.
@123 456 They are still pretty much helpless, not just against modern submarines, but also against mines and a bunch of stuff coming through the air. Anti ship mines evolved too, since WW2. They aren't some cartoonish looking steel ball with spikes, swimming through the water or being tethered to the ocean floor with chains anymore. They sit on the ocean floor and are basically undetectable and even if the carrier's support fleet could move slow and methodical enough to search the whole ocean floor in front of the fleet by sonar, which they can't, all they would see is some barrel shaped object laying around. You can't evade every piece of junk laying around with your war fleet and you can't stop the fleet every time there is some old crude oil barrel laying around, to blow it up, even if you could constantly search the ocean floor. Modern subs are basically just as impossible to detect and stop. Not just the most modern Swedish, German or Dutch high tech super submarines manage regularly to evade all detection and counter measures during war games and exercises, but even diesel-electric submarines from developing countries have successfully snuck up on US carrier groups repeatedly. I once read an article about some 40 year old Chilean submarine unexpectedly surfacing in the middle of a carrier group. There is a declassified, old informational film about submarine hunting made by the US Navy available on RU-vid. In that they all but admit that it is next to impossible to find a submarine, unless the sub makes dumb mistakes or is in such bad mechanical shape that the propellers start making undue noise, but even then it can be hard, depending on the surroundings. That video is old, from the late 60s or early 70s, but the principles explained in it haven't changed. No new ways of searching for submarines have been added to the cook book since then. Sure, submarine hunting equipment got better, but so did the submarines. There is a reason for why people say that in the ocean, there is only submarines and targets. And then there are new torpedoes. That new German torpedo has a 100 mile range, all electrical propulsion, which basically makes it totally quiet and undetectable, can receive satellite guidance, has some fancy new sonar that apparently can not only detect a surface vessel by the noise small waves make when they hit the hull, but even tell how big the target is and can make pretty good, educated guesses what kind of ship it is, just from that. And it has some advanced artificial intelligence algorithm stuff going on, which enables it to understand when somebody tries to fool it with counter measures. Apparently it can also operate in ambush mode, basically mimicking a mine. Its long range allows it to do more than just run straight at a target, like any other torpedo, but it can make outright attack plans and maneuver smartly to get to the target. It can determine where the target is moving, then run parallel to it, overtake it, loop around and put itself into the path of the target and then play dead and sink to a certain depth to wait there till the target runs over it, to attack it from below and shenanigans like that. I assume other modern torpedoes will be able of doing similar things, even though that German one to my knowledge is the only one yet that has an all electric propulsion and that kind of range.
@@bennytsb5719 Sorry about the delayed response, but I never got a notification about your comment. You can clearly see what the ship is made of in this video. There are no reinforcements and it definitely is just a single sheet of thin steel. There is no magical wonder steel that is way stronger than the regular rolled steel sheets they make any civilian ship out of. The best steels that exist currently are powder steels and they are maybe 10 to 15% tougher than regular steel and very, very expensive, which is why they are currently only used for small, important parts of aircraft and medical equipment like MRE machines and stuff like that. That ship would probably have cost 4 to 5 times as much as it did, if they would have built it out of powder steel. Hardly worth the money for a 15% increase in material performance, especially since whoever constructed this ship obviously didn't care enough about making it tough to even give it a double hull, like on an oil tanker.
@@messerschmittbolkow5606 What capacitor like active protection? Never heard of it and I don't see how a capacitor could do anything to protect a ship from torpedoes or sea mines.
Lol this ship was suppose to protect Singapore but they decided not to take an air escort hence, with a swift surprise attack the prince of Wales and another sunk into the depths of this ocean (lol I only took a year of history IDK if I'm wrong :)
